LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Corporate fast-food giant McDonald’s slammed President Donald Trump on Twitter Thursday, according to an archived tweet from the McDonald’s corporate account. The tweet appears to be deleted, but whoever was in charge of the social media account didn’t hold back. “@DonaldTrump You are actually a disgusting excuse of…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Thomas Phippen The new White House budget proposal, a wish list of President Donald Trump’s policies, would cut funding to several arts and grants programs that Republicans have decried for decades. Trump’s 2018 budget, called “America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again,” requests increases in defense…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Thomas Phippen President Donald Trump asked Congress for $999 million to start building the wall along the border with Mexico this year, and wants $2.6 billion for the project in next year’s budget. The White House asked Congress to add nearly a billion dollars to the Customs and Border Protection’s 2017 budget…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie President Donald Trump thinks the GOP plan to “repeal and replace” Obamacare has many problems, but promises it’s up for negotiation in Congress. The American Health Care Act (AHCA) is “very preliminary,” and a lot of aspects of the bill “aren’t consistent,” the president said Wednesday on…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jacob Bojesson Several people were injured during a shooting Thursday at a secondary school in Grasse, France, along the French Riviera. A person opened fire at the Alexis de Tocqueville military school Thursday morning. Police SWAT teams deployed to the scene and arrested the man. A terrorist attack warning was…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ryan Pickrell A high-ranking North Korean defector believes the North intends to test a nuclear bomb over a dozen times larger than anything it has previously tested, but that theory is a bit off. “The nuclear test which the North is trying to conduct at the Punggye-ri test site will…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rachel Stoltzfoos Stephen Colbert mocked MSNBC host Rachel Maddow Wednesday for massively overplaying her big scoop on President Donald Trump’s tax returns and making her audience wait for what turned out to be a nothingburger. Imitating Maddow, the late night comedy host did a mock segment in which he teased…
Global human rights are at risk. After a difficult year that saw bleak changes in social, political, and economic forces, human rights experts see a real and present danger of global erosion in systems that honor and protect human rights and that uphold the rule of proper law within societies, corporate systems, and governments. The…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Yoga pants in society have been seen as many things, for some they are relaxed easy-wear for every occasion, for some they are an oogle point, and now for environmentalist… they may be becoming the enemy. Yoga pants are emerging as a source of plastic that’s increasingly ending up…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Conservative radio host Michael Savage, who President Trump credited for helping win the White House, claims he was assaulted outside a California restaurant Tuesday night, reports the Daily Mail. Michael Savage, the 74-year-old host of “Savage Nation,” which is nationally syndicated, was dining solo at Servino Ristorante in Tiburon, with his toy poodle, Teddy,…